Word: trickyness
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Finally he succumbs to the infatuated, spoiled, neurotic and enchanting Irene who realizes that he loves her after he has cured one of her fits by sticking her, dressed, into a cold shower, on the ground that if he did not love her he could not have been so angry...
Into Canton, lately the centre of a tricky revolt against Nanking which cloaked itself in the guise of a Chinese movement to fight Japan, entered last week General Yu Han-mou, newly appointed by Generalissimo Chiang as "Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still...
From Yeats's point of view, Moore was very ignorant: he had read nothing ("I doubt if he had read a play of Shakespeare's even at the end of his life"), had picked up everything he knew from cafe talk in Paris. The problem of style had...
Translations are tricky and most poets, at least, would say that poetry is untranslatable. Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), whom the late Lytton Strachey called "the Swift of poetry," and who is still the most widely read poet in France, was a well-to-do bourgeois who despised his class, lived...
19th. Betimes up, and to the State House all the morning hearing many tricky speeches to repeal the Teacher's Oath Law; this, bless my soul, continues to be the best three ring circus in Boston: Never in my life have I seen a chairman so easily fussed as Senator...